What is the polycythemia vera life expectancy?

I am waiting for some results to come back and naturally I am curious as to what might be wrong with me. I had an unexplained massive PE in 2006 followed by another large blood clot mid 2009. I am now on warfarin for life but the reasons for my clots...

A friend of mine has been to five reputable websites (WebMD, Mayo, etc.) - one site will say it's a cancer, others make no mention of it. Two sites say a person has 10-15 years to live with managed symptoms, the others say no change to life expectancy...

I've read how prenatal vitamins and supplements can lower the risks of birth defects and even lower the risk of types of cancers in a child. Is there any published information that states how a child's overall life expectancy can be increased from mothers...

I know the average human's life expectancy from birth but I do not know a battery's life expectancy from manufacture and attempts to search come up with ads about the newest laptop battery's and ads about increasing your battery's life.I want to make...

Life expectancy can be seen to be correlated with cancer incidence rates (Cancer: Why is the incidence rate of cancer in the developed world higher than in the rest of the world?) But is it the only variable? It appears not. Consider the case of the...

Humans have had the same life expectancy rates for a long time. The only reason life expectancy rates went up is because infant mortality went down. Let's say a man lived till he was 60 and a child died after birth. The life expectancy rate would have...

Hi everyone, We often hear people discussing "life expectancy" and I just have a query regarding the term. I'm wondering, is a person's "life expectancy" determined at birth, or determined by the current year (2011)? Let me illustrate...

from Money Magazine (Oct 2011) US: $7,950/year - 78 year life expectancy Italy: $2,989/year - 86 year life expectancy Switzerland: $5,100/year - 85 year life expectancy New Zealand: $2,350/year - 82 year life expectancy